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I couldn't agree with you more! Not only is Scott not the best singer out of the five (actually out of all 10 finalists...I think that Nadia, Anwar, Constantine, etc. were all much better than him). Have you seen this site: www.votefortheworst.com? There have been only about 300,000 or so people that have visited the site (and potentially voted for Scott), but it could give him the extra votes that he needs to not go home tonight.

Edit:

Just tried going to the site...wasn't able to pull it up. It may have been taken down this week.

Here's the story (ran last week):

'Idol' speculation on not-so-great Scott

The conspiracy theorists are going wild as to why Scott Savol has survived thus far on American Idol. Fox

Sure, he's got the backing of the nation's legions of overeaters with domestic-violence raps and mediocre taste in pop music (maybe his mom wasn't that grandiose dubbing him "the heart and soul of America"). But those votes alone can't account for his Idol survival, given the support earned by superior talent that preceded him to the exit.

That leaves darker theories. Is a grass-roots movement, fueled by the mischief makers at www.votefortheworst.com, plotting to get Scott crowned, foiling Simon Cowell's transparent desire to boost Carrie Underwood to the throne? Have terrorists infiltrated Fox and scrambled text-message transmissions? Does global warming warp eardrums? Are Idol contestants cloned at Area 51? Mysteries abound.

Staying sharp

Vonzell Solomon had trouble with her lower register and flattened a few notes early in I Turn to You, one of Christina Aguilera's less-tortured ballads, yet overcame those flubs to radiate star power, adding to the unstoppable zest and vocal control she's displayed lately. Anthony Federov's risky selection of Celine Dion's I Surrender paid off in a surprisingly solid, soaring and sincere version. And Bo Bice, seldom esteemed in this column, emerged as the night's leader after punching up Gavin DeGraw's poppish I Don't Want to Be, a rare flash of inspiration from a contestant who has shown competence but little originality.

Falling flat

Constantine Maroulis was axed after tackling a popular radio hit, Nickelback's How You Remind Me, perhaps because his flubbed notes and rock-star poses reminded voters of every cover band they saw in college. Still, his performance was light-years better than Scott's torpid, off-key attempt at Dance with My Father, which should have ended with a shimmy down a trap door. And Carrie again faltered in confronting a country queen. She seemed incapable of finding the melody in Martina McBride's When God-Fearin' Women Get the Blues, not a particularly formidable tune, and she never summoned the vocal verve to match the rambunctious arrangement.

Likely to be tuned out

After consulting Las Vegas odds makers, Uri Geller and the Ouija board, the best guess is still Scott, but that's without factoring in the surreptitious machinations of Opus Dei and Skull & Bones. With talent no longer the guiding principle, Scott and his unpolished vibrato could wind up in the top three again, with Elvis Presley and Jimmy Hoffa.